Inside Missouri's push to ban out-of-state abortions

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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A legislative proposal in Missouri would make it illegal for a woman to cross state lines to receive a legal abortion. Restricting a woman's freedom of movement. Is it the next step in states that continue to tighten abortion access? Tessa Weinberg, Dr. Colleen McNicholas and Mary Elizabeth Coleman join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:58.2	30 years ago, there were 29 abortion clinics in the state of Missouri.
1:03.2	Today, there is only one.
1:06.0	And that one came close to shutting down in 2020.
1:09.6	Just in the last hour, ruling that the Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis will remain open.
1:16.2	That new information coming this morning as the state government administrator decided
1:20.3	that the health department was wrong not to renew the license of this facility.
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